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Rare 8,000 year old burial of child with limbs removed discovered in Indonesian cave

Jane Faure-Brac, Australian National University
Phys.org
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:00 UTC
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© Australian National University
ANU Archeologists have discovered a rare child burial dating back 8,000 years on Alor Island, Indonesia.

The one-of-its-kind burial for the region is from the early mid-Holocene and gives important insights into burial practices of the time.

Lead researcher Dr. Sofia Samper Carro said the child, aged between four and eight, was laid to rest with some kind of ceremony.

"Ochre pigment was applied to the cheeks and forehead and an ochre-colored cobble stone was placed under the child's head when they were buried," she said.

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'Remember Remember the 5th of November...': Guy Fawkes, UK government lies and new lockdowns

Gloria Moss
The Off-Guardian
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Guy Fawkes
Government malfeasance and deception is not new

At midnight tonight, November 4-5 a second lockdown begins in the UK, with scant justification and amid a storm of propaganda. On the same day at the same time 415 years earlier another momentous event was announced, amid a similar storm of propaganda. While not obviously connected in any way the juxtaposition reminds us that official narratives always require interrogation and always will. The gunpowder plot: 5 November 1605

According to historians of the gunpowder plot, the official story of this event concealed the extent to which the British establishment of the day may have enhanced their popularity and personal profits by pushing a version of events that drew Britain into decades of profitable war against Catholic Spain and Portugal. Most recently,this view has been expressed by John Hamer (in his Falsification of History) and by Webster Tarpley (in his videos about the Gunpowder Plot). The earliest and fullest account however occurs in John Gerard's 1897 book, What was the Gunpowder Plot?

Gerard's detailed investigation concludes that "the government consistently falsified the story". Since this is the earliest account to openly declare this, and since it predates the CIA's label of 'conspiracy theory' by some seventy years, it is worth reviewing the evidence underpinning this statement. For, understanding the context will highlight the problems that undermine the faithful reporting of events.
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Evidence of a prehistoric female 'hunter' discovered in Peru's Andes mountains

Maya Wei-Haas i
National Geographic
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:00 UTC
female warrior
© Matthew Verdolivo, UC Davis IET Academic Technology Services
An artist's depiction of what hunting may have looked like in the Andes Mountains of South America 9,000 years ago. Archaeologists were surprised when analysis of a hunter burial from the time period revealed the individual was biologically female.
Researchers have generally thought that only prehistoric males hunted — but what if evidence against that idea has been lying in plain sight for decades?

Randall Haas, an archaeologist at University of California, Davis, recalls the moment in 2018 when his team of researchers gathered around the excavated burial of an individual lain to rest in the Andes Mountains of Peru some 9,000 years ago. Along with the bones of what appeared to be a human adult was an impressive — and extensive — kit of stone tools an ancient hunter would need to take down big game, from engaging the hunt to preparing the hide.

"He must have been a really great hunter, a really important person in society" — Haas says that's what he and his team were thinking at the time.

Comment: Archaeological and literary evidence for female warriors has been found before elsewhere, but that's not to say that these roles were common throughout cultures. Whilst there may have been flexibility possibly based on need, culture or aptitude in societies, it would appear that there was a norm for particular roles and it tended to be for obvious, biological reasons; and so researchers need to be careful about projecting any modern day, often post-modernist, conceptions onto the past: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Into the Mystic - Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk

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Mycenaean necropolis of Trapeza reveals hierarchical society and ancestor worship

Greek Ministry of Culture
Archaeology News Network
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 07:00 UTC
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© MOCAS
View of chamber of Tomb 1
A large number of grave offerings and high-quality burial items were discovered during the five-year excavation programme at the Mycenaean necropolis of Trapeza, seven kilometers southwest of Aegion. The findings testify to the region's amazing cultural and social vitality. The plateau is identified with the city of Rhypes, the metropolis of Croton in Magna Graecia during the colonization of the 8th century BC.

The Mycenaean necropolis is located on the southwestern slope of the plateau and on the ancient road leading to the citadel of historical times. The excavated tombs are arranged on at least three levels of terraces along the south side of Trapeza, a few meters from each other, in a parallel arrangement and with a north-south orientation. These are chamber tombs carved into the soft rock of the subsoil.

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Ultra-rare coin celebrating Julius Caesar's assassination sells for a record $3.5 million

Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
CNN
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
caesar coin

Roma Numismatics Limited
An ancient gold coin described as a "naked and shameless celebration" of the assassination of Julius Caesar, featuring a portrait of one of the men who killed him, has set a new record for a coin sold at auction.

Bought by an anonymous bidder for £2.7 million ($3.5 million), the "aureus" coin features a portrait of Marcus Junius Brutus -- one of the ringleaders in the assassination of Caesar in 44 BC.

It also depicts the daggers used by Brutus and his co-conspirator Cassius to slay the ancient general in the Theater of Pompey in Rome, and a cap of Liberty -- a symbolic garment given to slaves upon their freedom.

Comment: It's rather symbolic that this sale should go ahead at this point in time considering the state of turmoil our planet is in and the ponerized nature of those in power (and who also probably share a lot in common with those who murdered Caesar).

To discover who Caesar really was, check out: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Evidence of megadrought in ancient Turkey also reveals tale of human resilience

University of Toronto
Phys.org
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
Tell Tayinat
© Brita Lorentzen
Microscope image of Iron Age oak twig from Tell Tayinat in Hatay, Turkey.
An examination of two documented periods of climate change in the greater Middle East, between approximately 4,500 and 3,000 years ago, reveals local evidence of resilience and even of a flourishing ancient society despite the changes in climate seen in the larger region.

A new study led by University of Toronto and Cornell University archaeologists working at Tell Tayinat in southeastern Turkey, demonstrates that human responses to climate change are variable and must be examined using extensive and precise data gathered at the local level. The study highlights how challenge and collapse in some areas were matched by resilience and opportunities elsewhere.

The findings published today in PLoS ONE are welcome contributions to discussions about human responses to climate change that broaden an otherwise sparse chronological framework for the northern part of the region known historically as the Levant, which stretches the length of the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Wild conspiracy theory? The truth behind the biggest threat to the 'War on Terror' narrative

Cynthia Chung
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
Gen. Flynn
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General Michael Flynn, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."
- Julius Caesar

The illegal invasion of Libya, in which Britain was complicit and a British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee's report confirmed as an illegal act sanctioned by the UK government, over which Cameron stepped down as Prime Minister (weeks before the release of the UK parliament report), occurred from March - Oct, 2011.

Muammar al-Gaddafi was assassinated on Oct. 20th, 2011.

On Sept 11-12th, 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service information management officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Tyron Woods and Glen Doherty were killed at two U.S. government facilities in Benghazi.

It is officially denied to this date that al-Qaeda or any other international terrorist organization participated in the Benghazi attack. It is also officially denied that the attack was pre-meditated.

On the 6th year anniversary of the Benghazi attack, Barack Obama stated at a partisan speech on Sept 10th, 2018, delivered at the University of Illinois, that the outrage over the details concerning the Benghazi attack were the result of "wild conspiracy theory" perpetrated by conservatives and Republican members of Congress.

Comment: Other articles by Cynthia Chung:

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Mail

The invention that forever changed the way we write

Stephen Dowling
BBC Future
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:45 UTC
ball point pen artwork
© Borja Buenafuente/BBC
Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production.

On 29 October 1945, the New York City branch of Gimbels department store unveiled a new product. Billions upon billions would follow in its wake.

Gimbels was the first to sell a new kind of ink pen, the design of which had taken several decades to come to fruition. The pens, made by the Reynolds International Pen Company, promised an end to the messy mishaps users of fountain pens encountered - leaking ink, smudges and pooling ink blots.

The new ballpoint pens did away with this, using a special viscous ink which dried quickly and didn't leave smudges. At the heart of it, the rolling ball in the nib - and gravity - ensured a constant, steady stream of ink that didn't smear or leave solid pools of ink on the page.

The new ballpoint was clean and convenient. What it wasn't was cheap.
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Scientists identify 34,000-year-old early East Asian of mixed Eurasian descent


Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 04:33 UTC
In a new study, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences present an analysis of the genome of the oldest human fossil found in Mongolia to date. They show that the 34,000-year-old female inherited around 25 percent of her DNA from western Eurasians, demonstrating that people moved across the Eurasian continent shortly after it had first been settled by the ancestors of present-day populations. The study also shows that this individual as well as a 40,000-year-old individual from China carried DNA from Denisovans, an extinct form of hominins that inhabited Asia before modern humans arrived.
Ancient Skullcap
© Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Science
The skullcap found in the Salkhit Valley in eastern Mongolia belonged to a woman who lived 34,000 years ago. Analyses Analyses showed: She had inherited about 25 percent of her DNA from Western Eurasian.
In 2006, miners discovered a hominin skullcap with peculiar morphological features in the Salkhit Valley of the Norovlin county in eastern Mongolia. It was initially referred to as Mongolanthropus and thought to be a Neandertal or even a Homo erectus. The remains of the "Salkhit" individual represent the only Pleistocene hominin fossil found in the country.

Ancient DNA extracted from the skullcap shows that it belonged to a female modern human who lived 34,000 ago and was more related to Asians than to Europeans. Comparisons to the only other early East Asian individual genetically studied to date, a 40,000-year-old male from Tianyuan Cave outside Beijing (China), show that the two individuals are related to each other. However, they differ insofar that a quarter of the ancestry of the Salkhit individual derived from western Eurasians, probably via admixture with ancient Siberians.
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Evil Rays

A brief history of government-funded electromagnetic, informational weapons and the remote manipulation of the human brain

Mojmir Babacek
Global Research
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 00:00 UTC
Electromagnetic weapons
Editors Note:

We bring to our readers this carefully documented review article by Mojmir Babajek first published in 2004.

While the text deals with a number of complex scientific processes, the implications of these findings are far-reaching. This study also has a bearing on the current Corona crisis.

The arsenal of electromagnetic and informational weapons, used to manipulate the human mind of targeted individuals or populations, is an integral part of the weapons system of the New World Order.

The US military possesses a sophisticated arsenal of psychotronic weapons which could be used both domestically and internationally.

Electromagnetic and informational Weapons could be used in conventional wars theatres, without the knowledge of the enemy.

It is therefore essential that we not only take cognizance of these findings, but we mobilize nationally and internationally against the use of brain manipulating technologies.

Michel Chossudovsky, 5 August 2004, 27, October 2020

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In October 2000, Congressman Denis J. Kucinich introduced in the House of Representatives a bill, which would oblige the American president to engage in negotiations aimed at the ban of space based weapons.

In this bill, the definition of a weapons system included:
"any other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person)... through the use of land-based, sea- based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations"(15).

Comment: And remember, this article was written in 2004. See also:

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